Now that Li Ming and Jiang Wei were free, and with Pang Long accompanying them, the burden of finding Jue City fell on them. The main strongholds of the Crusaders are in Beiming, usually hidden at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Based on the clues provided by Xia Long and Pang Long's divination, Li Ming discovered a more likely location.
That is the Grand Canyon in Sanyin City.
Speaking of Shanyin, a famous battle once took place here. This battle was the battle where Oni Xiong Xiaotian fell. Currently, Shanyin City is still under the control of Jiang's forces, but there are only a few hundred defenders in the city and about 10,000 Gray prisoners.
After all, Yanhuang is currently short of population, and even Jiang Zhi's forces cannot digest so many cities. Beiming has always been a war-torn place, so Jiang Feng will not prioritize the development of the city here, let alone transport civilians here. Like most cities in Beiming, there are basically only a small number of defenders and some Gray prisoners who were too late to move.
Liming and others were not familiar with the Shanyin Grand Canyon and could easily get lost. Pang Long suggested going to Shanyin City first. The people here have been here for a long time and should know something about the Grand Canyon.
Li Ming thought it made sense, so he followed Pang Long's suggestion.
When a thousand troops arrived at the gate of Shanyin City, everyone found that there were no guards on duty on the city wall, which was really strange.
Although we have known for a long time that there are not many defenders in Shanyin City, there is not a single person on the wall, right?
Li Ming patted the war horse, which immediately let out a long neighing sound.
A few seconds later, a guard appeared on the top of the city. His face was weak and his temples were white. He seemed to be an older veteran.
When the veteran saw the flag of Jiang Zhi's forces, he shouted excitedly: "Is it sent by the central government?"
"I am the young lord of Jiang Zhi's forces, open the door quickly!" Jiang Wei shouted.
"Okay, okay, let's start now."
A few minutes later, the middle gate of the city gate slowly opened, and a team of thousands of people slowly entered the city.
There were some guards standing on both sides of the city, but they all looked like old and weak soldiers, and there were only a few of them.
Li Ming and the lieutenants immediately got a general understanding of the situation in the city. Everyone was really shocked by this conversation.
A few months ago, Jiang Feng tightened the net, transferred the main forces from various cities in Beiming, and launched a decisive battle with the Gray Tribe in the Imperial Capital.
Shanyin City is also one of the cities, but after the main personnel were transferred, only about 500 guards remained here. Among these people, only one hundred were formally trained soldiers, and the remaining four hundred were militiamen.
In addition, there are tens of thousands of Gray captives in the city, who are mainly responsible for raising animals, growing vegetables, and working in the city.
When the main force of Shanyin City left, they left some supplies behind. As long as the people in the city develop the resources here, they should be able to have enough food and clothing.
Moreover, the central government does not have high requirements for the cities in Beiming. As long as the left-behind personnel can safely guard the city, go out to search for mineral veins every day, and conduct reconnaissance and records of the surrounding terrain and resources.
In other words, as long as these people are not lazy, they should have a good life.
This is indeed the case in theory, but not long after the main force left, it stopped raining here.
Sanyin City has a plateau terrain with numerous canyons, which results in less rainfall in the city. But even if there is not much rainfall, there will not be a big problem. Because the location of Shanyin City is very good, it is already the area with the most green resources in the entire Shanyin City, and there are several small lakes in the city.
But a few months ago, it stopped raining completely over Shanyin City. Over time, the city became increasingly short of clean water, and plants and vegetables began to wither, resulting in fewer and fewer animals. The lakes are not irrigated by rain, and the water quality is getting worse and worse, and people's lives are getting worse and worse.
Clean water was finally filtered out and distributed to the guards and militia first. The more than 10,000 Gray civilians could only drink unclean water. Soon more and more civilians became sick. Over time, the civilians complained.
The captain of the guard sent out signal corps several times to report the situation in Shanyin City to the central government and asked the central government for help.
An officer who received the signal corps at that time said: "The front line is very busy, and people die every day. If you can't even solve the water source problem, then you will have to resign yourself."
That's right, as a new human being, with such a strong ability to survive, how could it not even be able to solve the water source problem?
In most eyes, the situation in Shady City is not sympathetic at all. In addition, the front line is facing a life and death battle, who cares about other cities in Beiming.
Although the captain of the guard was angry, he had nothing to do. Not to mention that the central government does not have the energy to take care of this matter. Even if it did, it would not be possible to deliver water all the way. The water source problem must be solved by oneself.
If it really doesn't work, then put down your face and go to the neighboring city for help.
The guard captain asked for help from the surrounding cities, but the same situation occurred in the surrounding cities, that is, there was no rain and there was a lack of water.
Everyone had no choice but to unite and ask for help from the plain cities to the east.
There is no shortage of water in plain cities, but there is no manpower to transport water, and the terrain is not conducive to transportation. The only way is to abandon those cities where it doesn't rain and move collectively to the cities in the eastern plains.
But the cities in the eastern plains dare not accept them because they cannot accept so many people. Once they accept them, it will definitely lead to chaos and food shortages in the city. In addition, there are still gray zombies harassing the wilderness in the plains. Once there is any migration activity, they will definitely be ambushed, and the consequences will be disastrous.
Moreover, there was no order from above to accept them, so they would never dare to make the decision without authorization.
You can't leave, you can't stay, and the central government can't help. Those cities are like trapped animals, suffering every day.
About a month ago, two scouts accidentally discovered that it was raining in the Yinshan Grand Canyon, and there were many green plants there.
The scouts were so excited that they shuttled between canyons and drank freely in the lake. What they think in their hearts is that this is a paradise.
Finally the bitter end comes.
They wanted to see what went deeper into this paradise, so they went deeper and deeper into the canyon.
Gradually, they discovered a road surrounded by bushes, but there was an obvious road here, and it seemed that people often came and went here. Moreover, there should be a lot of people coming and going.
Sure enough, they soon heard the sound of horse hooves.
Just a few seconds later, the black cavalry suddenly galloped over and surrounded the two scouts.
These cavalrymen all have a cross mark on their uniforms.
Could it be the Crusaders?
The scouts didn't know much about the Crusaders, they only knew that they were the army of the Cross Chamber of Commerce. The Cross Chamber of Commerce has such a good reputation, so even if the Crusaders are not good people, they are not bad people, right?
As expected, a leader of the Crusaders knew the situation and extended an invitation to them.
"Since the Central Committee doesn't want you, we want you. We want to develop a large stronghold here, and we happen to be short of people. As long as you come, you will have food and clothing. If you join our Crusade, make contributions, and get promoted to a higher position, it won't be a problem. "
Soon, the scouts told the city lord, the captain of each guard army, about such an attractive invitation.
The various captains informed each other about the Shanyin Grand Canyon and held a meeting. Almost every captain wants to go to the Grand Canyon, but no one dares to do it.
Leaving the city and going elsewhere is an act of naked treason.
But some captains believed that they did not join the Crusaders, but worked there in exchange for good food and living environment.
In theory, this is true, but so many Gray civilians are not moved? Wouldn't it be assimilated? Once you live there, will you leave again?
In the end, no one takes the lead as a practitioner, and everyone is still suffering.
About half a month ago, the gray civilians in Shanyin City finally started a long-planned rebellion because they could not stand the living conditions. But the weapons in their hands are nothing more than sickles, hoes, or at most hammers and other tools.
Although the five hundred guards are small in number, they have armor and advanced weapons in their hands. So in order to suppress the rebellion, they showed no mercy.
In the end, tragedy occurred, with over a thousand civilians dead and countless injured. As for the five hundred guards, they were only slightly injured at most, and none of them died. Because the civilians still failed to wrest the weapons from the guards despite paying a heavy price. Without weapons, the situation cannot be changed.
The Gray civilians cried to heaven and earth. They cried out for the injustice of heaven and cursed the cruel rule of Jiang Zhi's forces. This goes against the instructions Jiang Feng left before leaving.
Jiang Feng once told the guard captain that he must ensure the safety of civilians and protect their lives, because Jiang Zhizhi's forces had promised that they would never discriminate against the Grays or treat them badly.
The captain of the guard was ashamed. He had failed to honor the lord's instructions. Looking at the gray men holding the corpses of their relatives, the guard captain knelt down to apologize to them and promised to give them clean water in the future.
However, in fact, the conflicts in the city have expanded infinitely, the wounded cannot receive good treatment, and clean water is very scarce, not enough for everyone.
The guards had already had the desire to defect, and many scouts did not come back after going out.
The captain finally couldn't bear it anymore. For the sake of more than 10,000 lives, he chose to be this sinner. He contacted the Crusaders in the Grand Canyon, and they sent troops to escort him personally.
Before the captain left Shanyin, he left dozens of soldiers behind. These soldiers had family members in Wangcheng, so they could not leave, nor could they bear the charge of defecting.
Since Shanyin City set an example, the guard captains in neighboring cities have followed suit, and almost all of them accepted the invitation of the Crusaders to go to the Shanyin Grand Canyon.
Today, there are only a dozen or so large and small cities around, and there are very few guards still holding on. They are struggling to survive, waiting for instructions from the central government. But fortunately, the number of people is already very small, so the water shortage problem has been alleviated, and there will be no major problem even if we live for a few more months.
They firmly believed that as long as the fighting on the front line was over, the central government would definitely send people.
But what they didn't know was that there were tens of millions of civilians migrating on the front line, and there was a huge dark crisis to deal with, so what happened in the remote cities of Beiming could not reach Jiang Feng's ears at all.
If Li Ming hadn't come here to look for Jue City, they wouldn't have known that something like this was happening in this area.
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